housing and homelessness Archives

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Mayor Eric Adams has proposed neighborhood-level rezonings near future Metro-North stations in the East Bronx and along an Atlantic Avenue light manufacturing corridor in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The local…

ByDavid Brand 5Comments

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Nov 2022

Housing and Homelessness

NYC Housing Calendar, Dec. 1-8

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

ByMariam Hydara 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Empty Rent-Stabilized Units in NYC Decreased This Year, as ‘Warehousing’ Debate Rages

The latest vacancy data now mirrors pre-COVID figures following a “pandemic-height outlier,” according to New York State’s affordable housing agency. The number of empty apartments also matches the vacancy rate…

ByDavid Brand 8Comments

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Nov 2022

Housing and Homelessness

NYC Housing Calendar, Nov. 16-22

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

ByMariam Hydara 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Homelessness Housing and Homelessness

NYC Pilots ‘Housing First’ Plan for Handful of Homeless Adults

The program run by the organization Volunteers of America-Greater New York has been called a positive first step, though the 80 units represent a sliver of New York City’s vacant…

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness

Mayor Adams to Shut Down Randall’s Island Tent Complex for Asylum-Seekers

The site has capacity for 1,000 people, but has seen relatively few visitors while continuing to encounter intense criticism from immigrants rights advocates and members of the City Council. Residents…

ByDavid Brand 2Comments

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Oct 2022

Housing and Homelessness

NYC Housing Calendar, Oct. 6-12

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

ByMariam Hydara 1Comment

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Sep 2022

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Arsenic Alarm Still A Drain on Riis Residents’ Routines and Resources

For tenants who have spoken with City Limits in recent days, the impact of the tainted tap warning still lingers, invading their routines and spurring them to spend money on…

ByDavid Brand 1Comment

Adams’ First Two Neighborhood Rezonings Take Shape as Mayor Looks to Supercharge Development

NYC Housing Calendar, Dec. 1-8

Empty Rent-Stabilized Units in NYC Decreased This Year, as ‘Warehousing’ Debate Rages

NYC Housing Calendar, Nov. 16-22

NYC Pilots ‘Housing First’ Plan for Handful of Homeless Adults

Mayor Adams to Shut Down Randall’s Island Tent Complex for Asylum-Seekers

NYC Housing Calendar, Oct. 6-12

Arsenic Alarm Still A Drain on Riis Residents’ Routines and Resources

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